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Newsweek ends its 80-year run as a weekly news magazine with a final print edition published this week with a Dec. 31, 2012 date. The magazine went with a vintage photo of its old Midtown Manhattan headquarters for the cover shot and a Twitter hashtage headline of "#lastprintissue.”
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Newsweek ends its 80-year run as a weekly news magazine with a final print edition published with a Dec. 31, 2012 date. The magazine went with a vintage photo of its old Midtown Manhattan headquarters for the cover shot and a Twitter hashtag headline of "#lastprintissue.”

Newsweek goes digital-only in 2013.

Newsweek merged with The Daily Beast website two years ago in an effort at making both stronger, but rising print costs and declining circulation spelled the end for the print product.

The New York Post says the "cover is an obvious attempt to reconcile the past with the future but ends up as sad commentary on Newsweek’s struggle to integrate print and digital."

The newspaper says "Newsweek never seemed at home in either world since it merged with the digital Daily Beast, owned by Barry Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp.

"Editor Tina Brown acknowledged the challenge that remains in her tweet referring to the cover: 'Bitter sweet! Wish us luck! #LastPrint Issue.'"

Capital New York says the final double issue was to hit "newsstands Monday (and tablets on Sunday), will have bylines from former Newsweek editors-in-chief Jon Meacham, writing on the magazine's presidential covers, and Mark Whitaker, writing about civil rights coverage. Tina Brown wrote her usual editor's note.

According to Adweek, Among the higher-ups who won't make the transition to digital are Mark Miller, a longtime Newsweek staffer whom Brown brought back in 2011 to oversee editorial operations after he'd quit the year before; fashion journalist Robin Givhan; and features director David Jefferson.